December 10, 2013

Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.

There is truly something for everyone in the leadership category this year. If you are looking to improve performance, Boundaries for Leaders lays out how the establishment of clear limits, and even containment, benefits productivity. But, since all people think, learn, and lead differently, visual tools such as StoryMaps can greatly improve communication, and Visual Leaders will teach you how to implement them. And while it may seem that some people are born leaders, Compelling People teaches us all that we can all be leaders once we learn to balance strength and warmth. Speaking of warmth, Nice Companies Finish First refutes the assumption that successful leaders are cutthroat and lead companies that suppress employee enjoyment, and instead encourages a humanistic approach to organizational leadership. And, finally, an example of wildly successful leadership and growth would be Proctor & Gamble, and its strategy for success is revealed in Playing to Win by current CEO of P&G, AG Lafley, and the esteemed Roger L. Martin.

About Sally Haldorson

Sally Haldorson's job as 800-CEO-READ’s General Manager is to make 800-CEO-READ a great place to work for our employees, and a consistently high-performing customer service organization for our clients, authors, and our partners in the publishing industry. In addition to her General Manager duties ensuring collaboration, integration, and quality, she reads, writes, reviews, curates, and edits for the company. Helping craft The 100 Best Business Books of All Time used parts of both skill sets. Outside of work, she is most likely to be found hitting a tennis ball around or hanging out with her boys (husband, child, dog) at home.

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The entries were submitted, the books were read, the shortlists determined, and we are now ready to announce the category winners of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards!
In the Leadership category. .

Click on the links below to read more about our choices for the top books of 2013, as well as the books that made our category shortlists. We will be announcing the Best Business Book of 2013 at our (mostly) annual We Believe in Books party in NYC the second week of January. Stay tuned!

Bad management—chances are we have either worked under bad management or we know someone who has. The harmful effects of a bad manager often extend as far as the private lives of staff, but the more obvious effects can be seen inside the workplace. Sadly, bad bosses are not all that uncommon.

Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential by John Neffinger & Matthew Kohut, Hudson Street Press, 304 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, August 2013, ISBN 9781594631016
This book is required reading at Harvard Business School, and for good reason—it helps their students become more successful, and it can do the same for all of us.
There is no denying that how the world sees us can make all the difference in how successful we are, and that is exactly what Compelling People addresses.

If you're like me, your summer reading list is infinite—wonderful-looking books in a towering protean stack which both promises blissful enrichment and threatens utter annihilation by way of procrastination and its associated guilt. And summer isn't even over yet. Don't get discouraged.